the setting:
parking: $15
soft pretzel: $5
bottle of water: $4.50
small nachos: $4.75
crappy “italian” hotdog that gave me a stomach ache: $5.75
churro: $4
tickets to the pointsettia bowl in san diego: well, free (some connection through max’s boy scout pack)
taking my son to see his first live football game: not quite priceless, but really cool, even if i could give a rip about utah vs. navy.
observation: the person who plays cymbals in the marching band gets all the benefits of being in the marching band without actually having to learn to play a real instrument. “sorry, i can’t go out tonight, i have to practice my cymbals.”
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It takes talent and skill to play the cymbols correctly….despite the fact that it looks merely like incoherent clanging.
Curiously this is the ONLY bowl game I give a rip about (Navy brat). Looks like it was a great game (with a TERRIBLE end!) hope you and Max enjoyed it.
As a memeber of the cymbalist civil rights action team we would like to inform you that playing cymbols is a very unique talent. Not just any battery operated monkey can do it…
I hope you and your son enjoyed the game, it turned out to have a pretty exciting ending.
Anyboby who’s been in band (whose not a cymbal player) would agree with you. Somewhere I have a band bible full of marching band jokes. There was an entire chapter dedicated to the cymbal players. Let’s just say they never got to date the color guard captain.